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- ✓One long straight nose horn, only small horns or knobs above the eyesเขาจมูกยาวชี้ไปข้างหน้าเฉียงขึ้น เหนือตามีปุ่มเล็ก
- ✓Short frill with four to six long spikes radiating back from the top edge
- ✓Large hooked parrot-like beak
- ✓Quadrupedal, elbows slightly out, fingers pointing forward and outward
- ✓Large rounded scales, some with small bumps
- ✓Whole animal visible in side view
- ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
- ✓No text, people or modern objects
Checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (checked item by item from the image) on Oct 31, 2026. The score is the share of checklist items the image gets right; it is not an expert scientific review.
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Scientifically accurate paleoart of Styracosaurus, a herbivore Ceratopsidae dinosaur from the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous (about 75.5–75 million years ago). One long, straight horn on the nose and only small horns or knobs above the eyes. A short frill with four to six long spikes radiating backward from its top edge. Reference: Styracosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It had four to six long parietal spikes extending from its neck frill, a smaller jugal horn on each of its cheeks, and a single horn protruding from its nose, which may have been up to 60 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide. The function or functions of the horns and frills have been debated for many years. Anatomy: a large, hooked, parrot-like beak; quadrupedal with pillar-like hind legs; front legs semi-erect with the elbows slightly out and the fingers pointing forward and outward, NOT palms-down; skin of large rounded scales, some with small conical bumps. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a Late Cretaceous coastal floodplain like the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, with conifers, ferns and early flowering plants by a river, no grass. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. No text, no labels, no humans, no modern objects.
Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database
Styracosaurus
Name meaning: From Greek, meaning "spiked lizard".
📏 About 5.5 m long and around 2–3 tonnes, about the size of a big rhino.
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Styracosaurus was a Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur from Canada with a big nose horn and several long spikes radiating from the edge of its frill, giving it a very impressive head.
Fun facts
- The frill spikes could be up to half a metre long and were probably for display and recognising their own kind more than for fighting.
- Bones of several Styracosaurus have been found together at one site, a hint that they lived in herds.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Styracosaurus (Dinosaur Park), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Centrosaurus

Chasmosaurus

Citipes

Caenagnathus

Foraminacephale

Latenivenatrix

Scolosaurus

Dyoplosaurus
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Ornithischian (bird-hipped)
- Family
- Ceratopsidae
- When it lived
- 72.2–83.6 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Campanian
- Named by
- Lambe, 1913
- Fossil occurrences
- 10 sites
Countries with fossils
- Canada
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata